10/14/2009
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"In 24 years, I have done a lot of hearings. I found it almost impossible to have an agency witness at the table who testified and the private panel comes up second, and get an agency person to stay in..."
"I think it is safe to say that countermeasures are difficult things to develop."
"But I think I can say on behalf of the Chairman, who is an appropriator, that this Committee has always said that we ought to appropriate at reauthorization levels."
"I hope it is a trend that is going to become the norm and not the exception."